Pope Francis appoints new members and consultants for Synod and Historical Sciences Committee

Jan 10, 2024 01:12

ZENIT Staff

Pope Francis During the General Audience on January 10 Photo: Vatican Media

Pope Francis•Vatican City•Vatican Diplomacy

With how many countries does the Vatican have diplomatic relations in 2024?

By the end of 2023, the United Nations recognizes a total of 195 countries. That would mean that the Holy See has no diplomatic relations with 11, making it one of the «countries» with the largest network of relations in the world.

Jan 08, 2024 00:26

Jorge Enrique Mújica

Pope Francis•Vatican City•Vatican Diplomacy

Pope Francis and his most important diplomatic speech of the year: here’s what he said

Audience with the Diplomatic Corps accredited to the Holy See on the occasion of the greeting of the new year.

Jan 08, 2024 00:14

ZENIT Staff

Pope Francis•Vatican City

Pope Francis baptizes 16 children in the Sistine Chapel: photos and words (with permission to shout and speak)

«They are the protagonists of this ceremony: they can speak, move, shout… They are in charge because it is their celebration: they are going to receive the most beautiful gift, the gift of faith, the gift of the Lord,» said the Pope to the parents and godparents of the 16 baptized children.

Jan 07, 2024 00:40

ZENIT Staff

Dicasteries•Documents

Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith issues new clarification on blessings to gay and irregular couples

Press Release from the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on the Reception of «Fiducia Supplicans»

Jan 03, 2024 12:56

ZENIT Staff

Dicasteries•Woman

Prefect of Dicastery for Doctrine of the Faith: there will be no priestly ordination of women

The Prefect of the Dicastery for the Faith who reinforces what was anticipated by the Secretary of State: he rules out a different moral evaluation of homosexual acts and the possibility of priestly ordination of women.

Jan 02, 2024 00:27

ZENIT Staff

Photo Gallery: Leo XIV Now Has An Official Mosaic to Enrich St. Paul’s Basilica, and This Is How He Reacted When It Was Shown to Him

Just over eight months after the election of Pope Leo XIV, the Vatican Mosaic Workshop has completed the mosaic portrait for the Basilica of St. Paul Outside-the-Walls, at the request of the Archpriest of the Basilica, Cardinal James Michael Harvey.

How Jesus Christ transforms man’s relationship with God, according to Pope Leo XIV

Pope’s general audience, January 14, 2026, on the Dogmatic Constitution Dei Verbum on Divine Revelation

Pope Francis appoints new members and consultants for Synod and Historical Sciences Committee

The Order of Malta, the 113 countries with which it has relations and the value of religious diplomacy

Jubilee 2025: Jubilee 2025 backpack for pilgrims introduced

This Will Be the Rome of the 2025 Jubilee: 5G in the Entire City and New Streets and Parking Lots Around the Vatican

Three Attitudes Pope Puts Forward to Marxists and Christians in the Vatican

Secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith Calls for Review of Celibacy

Controversial unknown book by Cardinal Fernandez, Prefect for the Doctrine of the Faith is made public

With how many countries does the Vatican have diplomatic relations in 2024?

Pope Francis and his most important diplomatic speech of the year: here’s what he said

Pope Francis baptizes 16 children in the Sistine Chapel: photos and words (with permission to shout and speak)

Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith issues new clarification on blessings to gay and irregular couples

Prefect of Dicastery for Doctrine of the Faith: there will be no priestly ordination of women